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Whats your goals for this coming year?

Whats eveybodys goals for this coming year?
I want 10 hives to make it throught winter all northen bees{mine }.
I have 12 right now.
Not to buy any bees my first year i wont have to buy bees thats a great feeling.
Come this spring have a better SPM in place with keeping the brood nest open and checker boarding and i might even flip some brood boxes and see what works best. Then right after the flow i'm going to fog for varroa and a brood break {make nucs for fall} plus drone frames in every other hive and SBB after JUNE 1st . Then i'm going to see witch is the best hive and make queens plus when i do the brood breaks witch ever ones are doing well i'll let them requeen on the own .Buy fall i want 15 strong hives and 15 nuc {3 deep} full of honey and bees. Plus i'm going to make queens all year long just to play with . I made 5 this past year and it was pretty easy. So those are my goals this beeing my 4th year i bet i hit my goals for this going year.

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

Have my hives survive their first winter, if not, do not buy bees but catch a swarm instead
Build a new hive and do a split in the spring
Have the split raise their own queen
Keep more organized inspection records
Have a schedule for sugar shake/mite counts during the season

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

First I want to finish making it through my first winter, ideally with both hives alive.

2) Get my TBH started, split my two surviving hives (fingers crossed), get my two new nucs established, and catch a swarm or two if I can. I'd like to go into winter with 8-10 strong, healthy hives.
3) Get my issues with my homemade extractor ironed out so I don't end up doing crush and strain again this year.
4) Get a nice honey crop.
5) Have a ton of fun and learn a lot more about my girls.

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

Catch one of Charlie's swarms by luring his swarm to fly over Golden Gate Park into my bait hive one mile away. I made the huge mistake of accepting his invitation to speak on swarm control at his bee club and he learned so much that his hives did not swarm. They will eventually and I will be victorious.

Load up the neighborhood around 31st Ave. with a lot more bait hives to catch his swarms there. He was naive enough to give me the street name of his new site. Solly Cholly, u goin down. That neighborhood has so many swarms already it is a no lose proposition.

Load up the area around Desmond's apiary so I can catch his new package bees when they swarm. Quit giving him advice on swarm control. Convince him to crowd his bees for comb honey production.

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

1. Expand from 3 hives to 10.
2. Get better at finding the queens
3. Spend more time with the bees
4. Find more time to explain to all the curious people about my bees
5. Have more fun
6. Give away more honey

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

Expand from 6 hives to 20 by splitting and catching a few swarms.
Raise a few nucs to sell to pay for more stuff.
Give queen rearing a whirl and maybe sell a few queens to locals......to pay for more stuff.
Make more honey to sell to mead makers...........to pay for more stuff.
These are some goals.......some may be achievable quite easily, others might be a little tight on time!!

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

My plan is to try my hand at raising some queens, either by Cloake board or Joseph Clemons starter/finisher methods. I would like to try both grafting and none grafting methods and see which one works best for me. I have hives that have never been treated for over 4 years so I will raise queens from the ones that survive the winter.

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

1. Try to maintain my last hive throughout the rest of this winter to complete my first year of beekeeping.
2. Finish getting my bait hives readied (I have upwards of 40 now) and capture 10-15 swarms.
3. Practice splits, combining hives, and work towards two good honey producing hives.
4. Overwinter a couple 2 deep 10-frame hives and several nucs successfully for next season.

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

Re: Whats your goals for this coming year?

First year trying to capture swarms in bait hives, so I want to have at least one swarm caught. But I'm putting out over 20 bait hives, so I'm really hoping to get 5 or 6. Anything after that would be gravy.